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Alright. Let's go for it. Let's throw a big Mars/Pluto rock into the water today.When Mars and Pluto come into a square with each other, and Mars is in the sign of the balance, there is an opportunity to embrace what appear to be contradictions and allow the tension of these apparent contradictions to work on the soul...it's never easy to do this, but it is always good for the soul, who is turned off by pat answers and overly simplistic notions of right and wrong...what is soulful is complex, …

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Mars in Libra is approaching its square to Pluto in Capricorn. Meanwhile, Venus and Jupiter in Scorpio are both moving into a trine with Neptune in Pisces.As Venus trines Neptune and Jupiter also moves into a trine with Neptune the themes of redemption, faith, renewal, and restoration are in the air, even as Mars bears down on its square to Pluto and penetrates into even deeper layers of unconscious material, both personal and collective. It's an interesting combination of planetary aspects …

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Venus and Jupiter are conjunct today.An I Ching Reading:* The 36th hexagram of the I Ching is called "Eclipsing the Light."* The hexagram tells the story of a mad king who will not listen to any of his advisors. In fact, the mad king threatens, kills, or imprisons those who disagree with him or question his motives or decisions.* The hexagram includes several different lessons. Simply summarized: don't be the person who is blinded by your own ambitions, don't be the person who doesn't listen, …

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The most important signs you have that Venus and Jupiter are coming together in Scorpio...* You are feeling horny and destructive and yet yoga or sacred chanting might feel good right about now...* You are getting everything you wanted, and it's making you paranoid* Being realistic feels naughty* You are digging into your own stuff and getting excited about it* You are completely overwhelmed, emotionally, and loving it* You want to mate with or maybe kill the object of your desire, could go …

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Today, a history of the Mars/Pluto transits since the last square from Mars in Libra, which happened in December of 2015.* November 13th, just as Mars enters Libra and begins its square to Pluto, a coordinated series of terrorist attacks are carried out in Paris.* December 2nd, 14 people are killed in a terrorist attack at a facility for the mentally disabled in San Bernadino, California. Trump calls for a complete ban on Muslims entering the United States.* During the period of the square a …

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Here's what to watch for:Saturn/Uranus* The old, traditional, and ancient together with the modern, the new, the inventive, the original, and progressive.* Retro technology, invention, and improvements upon things from the past.* Avante Garde individualism married to a traditional, conservative, disciplined, serious style.* Rebelliousness and sobriety, progress and form, structure and invention.* Challenging the current paradigm by returning in some way to a previous form or structure.* Breaking …

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More Jupiter in Scorpio wisdom.* How do our desires become the vehicle for our spiritual growth?* Desire is problematic for us for a lot of different reasons. One of the most obvious reasons we struggle with desire is that desire keeps us stuck in a cycle of needing what we don't have, struggling to maintain what we have once we have it (the joy or satisfaction often being stripped in the process), and then being disappointed or suffering when we inevitably lose the object of our desire. All of …

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